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With: Tessa Thompson, Nnamdi Asomugha, Eva Longoria, Aja Naomi King, Jemima Kirke, Tone Bell, Alano Miller, Raquel Horsford, Tucker Smallwood, Erica Gimpel, Ryan Michelle Bathe, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Lotus Simone Plummer, Regé-Jean Page, Lance Reddick, John Magaro, Antonio Wilson, Jahdai Pickett, Christian Lagadec, B.J. Clinkscales, Ron Funches, Shane Stevens, Greg Eagles, Kareem Stroud, Nina Ashe, Lorenzo T. Hughes, MC Lyte, Daniel J. Watts, Synthia L. Hardy, Hayley McCarthy, Courtney Leonard
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Written by: Eugene Ashe
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Directed by: Eugene Ashe
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some sexual content, and smoking
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Running Time: 114
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Date: 12/23/2020
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All That Jazz
By Jeffrey M. Anderson
This glossy, intelligent love story is happily absent of soap-opera crescendos, focusing instead matter-of-factly on all those bits of bad timing and inconvenience that can throw an otherwise made-in-heaven romance off-track. Set in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the movie has the vibe of a classic 1950s-era Douglas Sirk drama, with its beautiful colors and polished use of spaces. The wonderful Tessa Thompson plays Sylvie, who is engaged, but falls in love with jazz saxophonist Robert (Nnamdi Asomugha). They drift apart and come back together. She achieves her dream of being a television producer, while Robert finds his jazz dreams interrputed by the rise of Motown music. Their love must survive all of these almost mundane ups and downs, and it's deeply touching. Written and directed by Eugene Ashe, Sylvie's Love is also remarkable for being a story almost entirely made up of Black folks, who finally get to enjoy the kind of ordinary story that whites have made for decades.
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